Everyday Inequalities

Jodi O'Brien is Associate Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She co-edited with Peter Kollock The Production of Reality, 2nd edition, (1997). She writes and lectures in the area of cultural politics, marginal identities and communities. Judith A. Howard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She lectures and researches in the area of gender and the intersections of gender dynamics with race, class and sexuality. She is currently co-editing SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California

• List of Contributors viiForeword xiMary RomeroPreface xviiAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction: Differences and Inequalities 1Jodi O’BrienPart I. Everyday Interaction 41Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television 43Jocelyn A. Hollander"I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement 73Linda Van LeuvenAcknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers 97Carl Edward Pate"Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds 131Lori KendallPart II. Managing Self/Society Conflicts 155Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military 157Melissa S. HerbertSisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination 189Thomas J. GerschickClass Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life 213Martha L. ShockeyManaging Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain 237France Winddance TwineFrontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women 253Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. HassoPart III. Institutional Dynamics 281The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography 283Shelley KowalskiReproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts 309Jennifer L. EichstedtThe Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement 337Douglas HartmannBelongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market 361Anthony J. FreitasAfterthoughts 385Judith A. HowardIndex 397